Late Night Legacy are about
to drop a brand spankin’ new single with a music video. Songbird still has that
distinctive LNL sound but the song is completely different to any of their
previous releases.
The Leeds four piece have
taken a serene twist for their upcoming release, they’ve toned down their
upbeat funk and delivered a chilled out summery tune. The twangy guitar that
opens the song immediately sets the vibe of the song and makes it clear this
track is something different. It’s in the chorus their distinctive rhythm comes
in to play, whatever your mind contours up when you immediately think of LNL,
take that and imagine it with a dreamy dazed feel and that’s what you get from
Songbird.
Known for their comedic
music the video for Songbird follows suite, a satirical play on a dark subject,
our dystopian reality of the social media age.
When watching the video, what
I took from it was how completely obsessed we are with social media and our
phones. We live in a generation completely obsessed with the internet and social
media. It has become a horrifying part of who we are as a youthful society and
as individual people. Sure, not everyone is plugged into the matrix, but those
of us that are, really are living a dystopian reality.
The video for songbird
reminds us that we see people’s lives threw a small window that has been
specifically selected to highlight all the best parts of that person’s
lifestyle, we truly believe their happiness is real and they’re living a
flawless life and jealousy and confusion consumes us as we fail to understand
why our own lives aren’t like that. The answer? They’re not real! Those people
we all idolise through Instagram especially are just as addicted, if not more
so, by their phones, everything is filtered and edited.
At the end of the video, the
protagonist (played by frontman Ryan Kitto) is only awoken from this social
nightmare by his love interest from the start of the video, it took real human
connection to break that and draw the protagonist back to reality.
So I’ve given you the heavy analysis
of the video, I don’t want to give away HOW they portrayed this meaning, for
that you will just have to wait until the video is released on Sunday 22nd
July! But you can try and figure it out from these crazy behind the scenes photographs!
Review by Holly Beson-Tams
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